“Migrating Architectures” art and research project analyses the process of space formation as a transformation of spatial conceptions from both the countries of origin and destination. Read More…
Migrating Architectures (2019)
Category: Photography
Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art | Harvard Art Museums (2020)
What does it mean to be displaced from culture and home? What are the historical contexts for understanding our contemporary moment? How does an artist’s work and process embody and engage the narratives of displacement and belonging? Crossing Lines, Constructing Home investigates two parallel ideas: national, political, and cultural conceptions of boundaries and borders; and …
100 Images of Migration (2013- Present)
100 Images of Migration is the exhibition with which we launched the Migration Museum Project in 2013. The product of a competition run with the Guardian newspaper – people were asked to submit images that were, for them, resonant of migration – it collected images provided by professional and amateur photographers alike, each of which …
Biden’s policies on immigration (2020)
President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to make the United States a welcoming place for immigrants, but his plans to dismantle the Trump administration’s barriers to immigration could leave him in a quandary, especially as a new migration surge could be looming. Read More…
The story behind the girl in the recording who begs for her aunt after being separated from her migrant mother (2018)
The 6-year-old girl who was pleading with Border Patrol officials for her mother, begging for her aunt — on the excruciating audio published by ProPublica that helped galvanize opposition to family separations — had set out just weeks before from this village in the rolling foothills of western El Salvador, leaving behind her grandmother and …
Photographs That Humanize the Immigration Debate (2018)
“Mr. Moore, a staff photographer for Getty Images, now has perhaps the most comprehensive body of work of any news photographer covering immigration. His images — his book “Undocumented” was published by Powerhouse and Getty Images — are being highlighted in two projections at the Visa pour l’image festival in Perpignan, France.” Quote retrieved from …
Ramin Samandari: Huddled Masses
The project is a collection of 300 portraits featuring people holding whiteboard placards on which they’ve written details of their ethnic heritage. In the wake of the last presidential election, Samandari was motivated to explore his own experience as an immigrant. “Right from the get-go during the candidacy and post-election, there was a lot of …
The New Yorker: Mapping the Journeys of Syria’s Artists
The New Yorker featured an article about Syrian disbursement across the Middle east and Europe. The project tracks several Syrians, including a poet and a photographer as they set up life in new lands. Last year, as I began to map where Syrian artists had gone, a sculptor friend of mine who is based in …
World Press Photo Contest 2016: Reporting Europe’s Refugee Crisis
World Press Photo Contest 2016 View Russian photographer Sergey Ponomarev’s collection of winning images from the 59th World Press Photo Contest. See all: world press photo
The Night-Side of Hospitals: Migrant doctors and the medical system
Anna Harris and photographer Thomas Fuller undertook an ethnographic study of migrant doctors in Melbourne hospitals, documenting regulatory and cultural barriers present in the mobility of healthcare professionals. Find the article here
British Journal of Photography: The Migration Issue
Putting a face to the greatest humanitarian crisis of out time http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/08/editors-introduction-the-migration-issue-bjp-7851/
In the shadow of Trump’s Walls: Peter van Agtmael Photos
Photographer Peter van Agtmael, in collaboration with CNN and represented by Magnum Photos, portrays the U.S. – Mexico border in South Texas. The reportage frames the interaction between U.S. Republican Candidate Donald Trump and Pete Saenz, major of Laredo, a Texan City whose population is 96% Latino. Find the reportage along the photographic work in the …
Working From Home – A Photo Essay
These migrant workers travel wherever they can find employment. Some just for a season before returning home, others from city to city or country to country constantly looking for work. The photojournalist Irving Villegas has been documenting the lives of seasonal workers in different countries Germany Asparagus season Every year about 270,000 workers come to …
Fashion Photographer Turns Refugee Crisis Into Offensive High-End Fashion Shoot
“Hungarian fashion photographer Norbert Baksa has come under fire for a refugee-themed fashion photo shoot he conceptualized and shot at the Hungarian border. “Der Migrant,” which features models wearing headscarves and designer duds before a backdrop of barbed wire fences, was released on the photographer’s personal website and Twitter account last week to predictably less-than-stellar reviews. …